• Adobe After Effects

  Shadows going through solid layers

  Posted by April Henderson on December 23, 2009 at 9:28 pm

  Hi. I was just wondering if it was normal for a shadow to be going through a solid layer.

  I have not instructed any layers to do so.

  The object casting the shadow, however, is a precomposition, mind you with the “collapse transformation” icon selected.

  Anyways, the shadow is going right through solid layer it’s sitting on and passing down to another layer (where I don’t want it).

  Any advice? I don’t want to turn off shadows for the layers below because they have their own lights and shadows.

  Steve Blacker replied 16 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  April Henderson

  December 23, 2009 at 9:44 pm

  I substituted the precompositioned layer for just a normal layer and the shadow is still going through. So that doesn’t seem to be the issue.
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  Steve Blacker

  December 24, 2009 at 2:51 am

  Put an empty adjustment layer between the layers. That way you re-arrange the rendering order, as it were, and you won’t see a shadow pass through to the layer below.

  Then you just put your other light/layer/shadow casting object below the adjustment layer, etc.

  It’s only work if you’d rather be doing something else…

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